Joanna HolmanIn Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums
Sin Vega@joannaholman this is one thing I grudgingly love about old churches, especially cathedrals. It's a shame they're shackled to such abusive organisations (uk here ftr), but even then, the continuity, the changes and the lifetimes of work put into every part of them.
The fact that no one person could ever know all of it, simply because it's a little part of countless lives.
It's beautiful, and even the terrible parts of the history are, well, that's humans, too. That's part of its story.
esc key@sinvega @joannaholman The fact that we used to embark on collective projects that would not be finished in our lifetimes was lost somewhere along the way…